Your faithful correspondent has been giving some consideration to literature lately and how modern life seems to have made some of the works in the American canon somewhat passe'.
A case in point is Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. The whole point of the novel is a exposition on "hypocrisy."
In the novel Hester Prynne, an unmarried woman, gives birth to a child. Because of this she is, by law, required to wear on her clothes the letter "A" (for adulteress). The father, Rev. Dimsdale, never cops to the fact that he is the father of the child until the end of the novel when he is in a pinch.
Now, disregarding the fact that Miss Prynne is unmarried and thus would be properly more described as a fornicator (since the father was not known to be married or unmarried) and, thus being forced to wear a scarlet "F", modern life, due to situational ethics, applies no shame to either adultery or fornication. It is not unusual for one to be acquainted with women who have given birth out of wedlock or given birth to children not sired by their husbands.
How can the modern young person in school realize the shame that Hester Prynne suffered? That young person, unless attending a Christian or Catholic school cannot. How can a young person in school realize what hypocrisy in sexual matters really is when that young person is sitting next to one or more other children who do not know their fathers.
There was a time when drunkenness was a shame and the smoking was the norm. Now we live in a world where drunkenness is considered a disease, smoking is considered the worst of sins, and while, giving birth out of wedlock, while not the norm, is not unusual; just look at the crowd in Hollywood.
Drunkenness may affect a family, smoking affects an individual, but bastard children affect the society with welfare and care.
Could it be time, because of the idiocy of society, to chuck The Scarlet Letter? It seems so quaint.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Learn to Use your Hands
While this writer sated in his previous post that he would lay off the Orcs, he did not say that he would lay off the Orc sympathisers. Here is a link to a video in which a woman takes on the Orc sympathisers in the Congress:
YouTube - Barnhardt-Graham-Part1.flv
But to get to the point.
This writer has long been of the opinion that modern technology has resulted in the weakening of man.
Instead or relying brain and muscle we have gotten to the point where we rely on machines to do our work.
By this the writer means, not mechanical presses to do the work that was once done by smiths, but, rather the fact that typists are not real typists, shorthand takers are not shorthand takers and all to many machinists are not really machinists. All of the above have become button pushers relying on a computer to do the work that was once proudly done by human beings,
The result is that there is a generation of "worker" who really do not know their trade. They know their computers, and then barely.
Ask yourself, "Do I really know the skills that those who worked in my trade fifty years ago knew? Or do I only know how to make a computer do it?" If one doe not know how to perform a skill manually, is it really a skill?
Pilots in the know have said that airplane pilots during World War One were better than the planes, the pilot during World War Two were equal to their planes and that modern pilots just ride their planes.
Do you want to be better or equal to your skills? Or do you just want to take a free ride?
YouTube - Barnhardt-Graham-Part1.flv
But to get to the point.
This writer has long been of the opinion that modern technology has resulted in the weakening of man.
Instead or relying brain and muscle we have gotten to the point where we rely on machines to do our work.
By this the writer means, not mechanical presses to do the work that was once done by smiths, but, rather the fact that typists are not real typists, shorthand takers are not shorthand takers and all to many machinists are not really machinists. All of the above have become button pushers relying on a computer to do the work that was once proudly done by human beings,
The result is that there is a generation of "worker" who really do not know their trade. They know their computers, and then barely.
Ask yourself, "Do I really know the skills that those who worked in my trade fifty years ago knew? Or do I only know how to make a computer do it?" If one doe not know how to perform a skill manually, is it really a skill?
Pilots in the know have said that airplane pilots during World War One were better than the planes, the pilot during World War Two were equal to their planes and that modern pilots just ride their planes.
Do you want to be better or equal to your skills? Or do you just want to take a free ride?
Saturday, April 09, 2011
The Gheys
Let it be known that we at Bloody Nib Manor have gotten a bit tired of pounding on the Orcs. After all, everyone with a lawn hates gophers and, after a while, one gets tired of talking about gophers. Let's just say that both are under miners and are not much good for this green and promised land.
And let it also be known that this writer has no more animus against homosexuals than he does against adulterers. In fact, your faithful correspondent dislikes adulterers more than he does queers for the simple fact that adulterers have violated a contract. Gays never made a contract. Or they have never done so until very recently. Adulterers have betrayed God and their spouse. Gays have only betrayed God (which is bad enough).
For some time the gays have been lobbying for the idea of "gay marriage." The whole idea is silly and the whole idea is to make the populous believe that homosexuality is as valid a form of attachment as is heterosexuality. It is not. Neither Biblically nor sociologically. Homosexuality is an aberration, whether in the human or animal kingdom. It adds nothing to the polis but a demand for the right to lust and act.
But The One and his administration seem to think that gay marriage is a pretty good idea and the administration has decided not to stand up to challenges to traditional marriage. And the media, being the weak horses and lickspittles that they are, have gone along with this nonsense.
But note that their are still people who think that homosexual "marriage" is a pretty bad idea:
New campaign sets goal
of restoration of marriage
The Barbarians during the latter days of Imperial Rome, thought the Romans decadent, weak and self-indulgent. One of the great sins of the Romans was homosexuality to the point that no 12 year year old boy was safe walking down the street alone.
This scholar, who has been decried by the politically correct, posits an interesting theory:
Outrage as top Italian history professor blames fall of Rome on rise of homosexuality | Mail Online
The next time you complain about the sorry state of popular music or the sluttish fashion that your daughter is wearing, remember that the music was probably written by, or produced by a homosexual and that the female performer is more than likely a "fag hag," and that all too many fashion designers, or trend setters are gay.
And let it also be known that this writer has no more animus against homosexuals than he does against adulterers. In fact, your faithful correspondent dislikes adulterers more than he does queers for the simple fact that adulterers have violated a contract. Gays never made a contract. Or they have never done so until very recently. Adulterers have betrayed God and their spouse. Gays have only betrayed God (which is bad enough).
For some time the gays have been lobbying for the idea of "gay marriage." The whole idea is silly and the whole idea is to make the populous believe that homosexuality is as valid a form of attachment as is heterosexuality. It is not. Neither Biblically nor sociologically. Homosexuality is an aberration, whether in the human or animal kingdom. It adds nothing to the polis but a demand for the right to lust and act.
But The One and his administration seem to think that gay marriage is a pretty good idea and the administration has decided not to stand up to challenges to traditional marriage. And the media, being the weak horses and lickspittles that they are, have gone along with this nonsense.
But note that their are still people who think that homosexual "marriage" is a pretty bad idea:
New campaign sets goal
of restoration of marriage
The Barbarians during the latter days of Imperial Rome, thought the Romans decadent, weak and self-indulgent. One of the great sins of the Romans was homosexuality to the point that no 12 year year old boy was safe walking down the street alone.
This scholar, who has been decried by the politically correct, posits an interesting theory:
Outrage as top Italian history professor blames fall of Rome on rise of homosexuality | Mail Online
The next time you complain about the sorry state of popular music or the sluttish fashion that your daughter is wearing, remember that the music was probably written by, or produced by a homosexual and that the female performer is more than likely a "fag hag," and that all too many fashion designers, or trend setters are gay.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
The New Class Divide
Recently there have been in Wisconsin and Ohio a certain amount of stress between the governors (and Republican legislators) and public employee unions. The elected leaders of the states have stated that the citizens of the states can no longer, through their taxes, support the benefits that the unionized state employees have come to expect.
There have been demonstrations and near riots by public employee unions protesting said benefit adjustments and proposals to de-certify the unions.
We saw this a few months ago with the protests and riots in Greece and Portugal. Last week there was a massive demonstration in London by members of the public employee unions against any sort of cutting of benefits. The expectation is that the average taxpayer should be more than happy to pay for the more than generous retirement benefits of a "civil servant."
The public employee has come to be the favored class. There was a time when the public employee was paid an equivalent salary as the private sector employee (perhaps a bit less) with a decent retirement package and an almost unloseable job. Now the pay exceeds that of the producing class (government employees produce nothing but paper) with retirement packages that are extravagant and such job security that it takes an act of Congress to fire, not an incompetent employee, but a criminal employee.
The numbers of public sector employees has grown dramatically while the number of wealth producing private sector employees has fallen. It has gotten to the point that close to 50% of college students are planning to go into government work instead of the private sector.
The taxpayer is being ever-more burdened with the demands of timeservers and is beginning to resent it. Those you produce are ever-more resenting those who take. The taxpayer sees the public employee as the undeservedly favored, and rightly so. Consider the fact that in the state of California there are about 25 million workers (at the best of times) and there are 2.5 million public sector employees. That means that every 9 point something working person in the state is paying the salary and benefits for one government employee. That type of nonsense is not only a builder of resentment, it is unsustainable.
And let us not forget our elected leaders. They want us to use CFL lights, use public transportation (or at least drive skateboards called cars), reduce our carbon footprint while they light the inside and outside of the Capitol and White House with energy gobbling incandescent bulbs, take limousines and private jets to their destinations instead of buses, trains or trolleys, and have at least two houses, both of which are probably better than the one you live in.
What has happened is a change from a battle between the wealthy and the working class to a battle between the government worker and the producer. A robber baron may make his living off your back, but at least you have a choice to quit your job. You have no choice in paying taxes to pay the retirement of a DMV drone.
This guy puts it better than your faithful correspondent:
Britain no longer split by social class but between public and private sectors | Mail Online
There have been demonstrations and near riots by public employee unions protesting said benefit adjustments and proposals to de-certify the unions.
We saw this a few months ago with the protests and riots in Greece and Portugal. Last week there was a massive demonstration in London by members of the public employee unions against any sort of cutting of benefits. The expectation is that the average taxpayer should be more than happy to pay for the more than generous retirement benefits of a "civil servant."
The public employee has come to be the favored class. There was a time when the public employee was paid an equivalent salary as the private sector employee (perhaps a bit less) with a decent retirement package and an almost unloseable job. Now the pay exceeds that of the producing class (government employees produce nothing but paper) with retirement packages that are extravagant and such job security that it takes an act of Congress to fire, not an incompetent employee, but a criminal employee.
The numbers of public sector employees has grown dramatically while the number of wealth producing private sector employees has fallen. It has gotten to the point that close to 50% of college students are planning to go into government work instead of the private sector.
The taxpayer is being ever-more burdened with the demands of timeservers and is beginning to resent it. Those you produce are ever-more resenting those who take. The taxpayer sees the public employee as the undeservedly favored, and rightly so. Consider the fact that in the state of California there are about 25 million workers (at the best of times) and there are 2.5 million public sector employees. That means that every 9 point something working person in the state is paying the salary and benefits for one government employee. That type of nonsense is not only a builder of resentment, it is unsustainable.
And let us not forget our elected leaders. They want us to use CFL lights, use public transportation (or at least drive skateboards called cars), reduce our carbon footprint while they light the inside and outside of the Capitol and White House with energy gobbling incandescent bulbs, take limousines and private jets to their destinations instead of buses, trains or trolleys, and have at least two houses, both of which are probably better than the one you live in.
What has happened is a change from a battle between the wealthy and the working class to a battle between the government worker and the producer. A robber baron may make his living off your back, but at least you have a choice to quit your job. You have no choice in paying taxes to pay the retirement of a DMV drone.
This guy puts it better than your faithful correspondent:
Britain no longer split by social class but between public and private sectors | Mail Online
Was It a Spontaneous Demonstration?
Those who may have been following the news may be aware that there have been several riots in Afghanistan protesting the burning of a copy of the Koran by Pastor Terry Jones.
The media and political class have made it a hobby to blame Mr. Jones for the deaths and rioting. The argument goes something like, "We believe in the First Amendment, BUT..." In other words, the implication is that the average Muslim is such a sensitive and barbaric being that he or she is not capable of understanding that the West values freedom of speech in a way that is not valued in the Near East or west Asia , and that we should modify our behavior to not offend our little Orc brothers.
It's a form of the No Child Left Behind concept that the federal government has forced on the public school system in the United States. No child will progress, even the best and the brightest, until the slowest progresses. The West is expected to rein in the freedom of expression in order not to offend those who are incapable of philosophical debate. And because the average Muslim seems to be able to understand the concept of libertarian freedom, we are all expected to hold our tongues. In other words, there's a crazy aunt in the attic who should probably be institutionalized, but she's coming down for supper and don't argue with her when she she puts on a tin foil hat and starts screaming about Xenu. If you do she'll pull out a meat clever and go after you and it will be your fault.
Here's an article about the riots/killings:
Afghan riots over Quran-burning: 2 days, 20 dead - Yahoo! News
Ask yourself this question:
If we are not doing anything to impart Western values in Afghanistan, why are we there? We seem to just be maintaining a tribal society that is better left to study by the National Geographic Society than an investment of or blood, gold and concern.
The media and political class have made it a hobby to blame Mr. Jones for the deaths and rioting. The argument goes something like, "We believe in the First Amendment, BUT..." In other words, the implication is that the average Muslim is such a sensitive and barbaric being that he or she is not capable of understanding that the West values freedom of speech in a way that is not valued in the Near East or west Asia , and that we should modify our behavior to not offend our little Orc brothers.
It's a form of the No Child Left Behind concept that the federal government has forced on the public school system in the United States. No child will progress, even the best and the brightest, until the slowest progresses. The West is expected to rein in the freedom of expression in order not to offend those who are incapable of philosophical debate. And because the average Muslim seems to be able to understand the concept of libertarian freedom, we are all expected to hold our tongues. In other words, there's a crazy aunt in the attic who should probably be institutionalized, but she's coming down for supper and don't argue with her when she she puts on a tin foil hat and starts screaming about Xenu. If you do she'll pull out a meat clever and go after you and it will be your fault.
Here's an article about the riots/killings:
Afghan riots over Quran-burning: 2 days, 20 dead - Yahoo! News
Ask yourself this question:
If we are not doing anything to impart Western values in Afghanistan, why are we there? We seem to just be maintaining a tribal society that is better left to study by the National Geographic Society than an investment of or blood, gold and concern.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Screw PayPal
Those with a degree of familiarity with with the writings of this writer from Bloody Nib Manor are well aware, this writer has not been a man who grinds an ax in public.But this writer is compelled to urge a revolt against PayPal.
This writer has used PayPal several times in the past, all for purchases on eBay and this writer has not defaulted on the purchases.
But, for some reason both the credit cards that this writer has used for PayPal purchases have recently been rejected.
This writer has never missed a credit card payment. This writer has never been rejected from Amazon. This writer has never been denied from any Internet transaction except from PayPal.
PayPal sucks and the result of the suckness of PayPal has been that several charities have not received the monies that we at the Manor intended them to receive.
The lesson is that one should give to charitues via real mail. Not the Internet.
This writer has used PayPal several times in the past, all for purchases on eBay and this writer has not defaulted on the purchases.
But, for some reason both the credit cards that this writer has used for PayPal purchases have recently been rejected.
This writer has never missed a credit card payment. This writer has never been rejected from Amazon. This writer has never been denied from any Internet transaction except from PayPal.
PayPal sucks and the result of the suckness of PayPal has been that several charities have not received the monies that we at the Manor intended them to receive.
The lesson is that one should give to charitues via real mail. Not the Internet.
A Little Food for Thought
As those in the know are well aware, we here at the Manor are Christians of the Protestant type. We are of the opinion that Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Light, and we occasionally wonder why others, especially among the Muslims cannot twig to the Real Deal. Tis from the late pastor Dr. David Martin Lloyd-Jones may explain why:
YouTube - "Do Infidels Reject Because of Reason? No, Irrationality."
An actress in Pakistan has had the bravery to take on an Islamic teacher. Let us hope and pray that this is the start of a trend and that it is the start of a trend toward religious tolerance in that benighted nation:
Veena Malik, Freedom Fighter | The Weekly Standard
Finally, a person who is academically much more qualified to make broad statements than you faithful correspondent, an egghead has finally realized that the sky is blue:
Why Multiculturalism Will Always Fail
YouTube - "Do Infidels Reject Because of Reason? No, Irrationality."
An actress in Pakistan has had the bravery to take on an Islamic teacher. Let us hope and pray that this is the start of a trend and that it is the start of a trend toward religious tolerance in that benighted nation:
Veena Malik, Freedom Fighter | The Weekly Standard
Finally, a person who is academically much more qualified to make broad statements than you faithful correspondent, an egghead has finally realized that the sky is blue:
Why Multiculturalism Will Always Fail
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Non-Orcs Fight Back
All to often we here at the Bloody Nib Manor speak and write about the awfulness that is Islam and the seemingly unrelenting victories that this hoard of heathens have made in their never-ending assault upon Western and Christian culture.
Today this writer features links to article about Christians speaking out against the Mohammedan/atheist wave.
Marine LePen has spoken out against the unthinking acceptance of "refugees" from Islamic countries. Apparently she has read the novel, The Camp of the Saints, written in the late 1970s:
Marine Le Pen says Europe can't handle migrants - Telegraph
Once immigrating to the West is search of freedom (meaning in reality, the long green) some Orcs seem to think that they have the advantages they had in the dark land without adhering to the laws of the lands of light:
Retired doctor Saeeda Khan forced £10-a-month 'slave' to sleep on tiny mattress | Mail Online
Copts in the U.S. are finally speaking out against the persecution that their fellows have been suffering in Egypt:
Christians Speak Out Against Muslim Mistreatment in Mideast - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Israel National News
And finally, while we here at the Manor are Protestants and are not used to crucifixes (we prefer plain crosses), we cannot argue with the practice in Italy of hanging crucifixes in classrooms. Italy is a culturally Catholic nation and anyone who immigrates to Italy should not be expected to be given special treatment because they are an atheist:
Italy wins crucifix appeal - ANSA English - ANSA.it
Today this writer features links to article about Christians speaking out against the Mohammedan/atheist wave.
Marine LePen has spoken out against the unthinking acceptance of "refugees" from Islamic countries. Apparently she has read the novel, The Camp of the Saints, written in the late 1970s:
Marine Le Pen says Europe can't handle migrants - Telegraph
Once immigrating to the West is search of freedom (meaning in reality, the long green) some Orcs seem to think that they have the advantages they had in the dark land without adhering to the laws of the lands of light:
Retired doctor Saeeda Khan forced £10-a-month 'slave' to sleep on tiny mattress | Mail Online
Copts in the U.S. are finally speaking out against the persecution that their fellows have been suffering in Egypt:
Christians Speak Out Against Muslim Mistreatment in Mideast - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Israel National News
And finally, while we here at the Manor are Protestants and are not used to crucifixes (we prefer plain crosses), we cannot argue with the practice in Italy of hanging crucifixes in classrooms. Italy is a culturally Catholic nation and anyone who immigrates to Italy should not be expected to be given special treatment because they are an atheist:
Italy wins crucifix appeal - ANSA English - ANSA.it
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Our Muslim Friends
It may seem that this writer is behind the curve considering the Libyan thing, but this blog takes the long view and the small view.
Consider this item:
Why They Celebrate Murdering Children - Andrew C. McCarthy - National Review Online
Consider this item:
Why They Celebrate Murdering Children - Andrew C. McCarthy - National Review Online
Sunday, March 06, 2011
Libya?
Our elected masters are falling all over themselves demanding that The One set up "No-Fly Zones" over Libya to prevent the dictator Qaddafi from aerially attacking the rebels.
As usual, in their mistaking urgency with importance, these buffoons have not properly thought out the matter. Nor have they asked themselves any questions.
The main question is, who are the rebels. Who is their leader? Could it be that a regime created by the rebels could be worse than Qaddafi?
Useful idiots in the US made the same mistake in dealing with Russia, China, Cuba and Iran.
Do they not realize that impulse is the mother of disaster?
As usual, in their mistaking urgency with importance, these buffoons have not properly thought out the matter. Nor have they asked themselves any questions.
The main question is, who are the rebels. Who is their leader? Could it be that a regime created by the rebels could be worse than Qaddafi?
Useful idiots in the US made the same mistake in dealing with Russia, China, Cuba and Iran.
Do they not realize that impulse is the mother of disaster?
Orcs on Parade
About a month ago that paragon of virtue, Hugh Hefner announced that he was going to get married. One would think, that at the age of 84, he might spend a little more time with his grandchildren instead of considering marriage, especially since his intended is young enough to be his granddaughter. When Mr. Hefner was 60 years old his future bride was just being born.To be somewhat common and vulgar, there is a "yuck" factor involved in the marital transaction. Mr. Hefner, being an eternal adolescent, refuses to realize that he is an old man better suited, despite the miracle of Viagra, to be playing checkers in the park or tending his garden than jumping the bones of a young woman. And is bride-to-be, while nattering nonsense about how "young at heart" Mr. Hefner is, shows herself to be nothing more than a whore with a bit of foresight. She has sacrificed herself on the alter of an old, and awful man's lust and self-delusion, in exchange for lucre.
Having said that, both persons are chronologically adults and both of them have come to an agreement.
On the other hand, we all too often run across situations where young Muslim women (actually girls ranging from the ages of 12 to 18) find themselves, without their knowledge or consent, married to a man they have never met and for whom they are expected to bear children. And all too often, these girls are girls who have been raised in the West.
Recently, in Southern California, a case has come forth in which the step-daughter of a Pakistani-Muslim man (the girl, 13, is not a Muslim) ran away from home because she claimed that her mother (a American of European descent) and step-father planned to send her to Pakistan to marry a man she had never met.
The Hefner instance is an example of the self-delusion of an old and randy man. The second instance is an example of the sickness and utter disregard for women that exists in Islam. In the West adults are allowed to be silly and stupid. In Islam, children have no escape from the stupidity and lust of their elders.
In the case of the 13 year old girl from Southern California we are shown the stupidity of Western women marrying Muslim men. The women, in the search of the exotic, marry down. They marry beneath them and don't realize it. It is tantamount with crossing a greyhound (the Western) with a Pariah dog (the Islamic). The greyhound is a cultured and gentle hound, the Pariah dog is vicious. The result will be the greyhound's qualities swamped by the viciousness of the Pariah. The offspring of the mating may result in a gentle pup, but the Pariah will soon do everything possible to ruin the pup.
This article from the Canada Free press does a better job expressing this matter than this writer can:
Muslim Men and Non-Muslim Women
Muslims in America, when not pretending to be tolerant and gung-ho Yanks, are often stupid and silly. One almost longs to play poker with them because they so often tip their hands. When you faithful correspondent first saw the following linked page he thought is a joke or parody. Further investigation of the website showed that the writer was completely serious:
The Islamic Demolition of the Statue of Liberty
The First Amendment guarantees the right of every American (note that this writer uses the word "American" meaning American citizen) to express his or her opinions in public or private without fear of retaliation from the State. The nature of the nation also allows businesses to deign what will or will not be expressed by employees that may be construed as the company's position. In other words, an employee may not, acting under the perceived aegis of the company, say something like, "All politicians are buffoons and whores, and Democrats are the worst" even if the statement is true without suffering the consequences of the displeasure of the employer. The employer has the right to kowtow to our elected masters in the hopes of receiving custom from said masters.
Recently a radio host lost his job because his wife said some things that offended the Orc lobby:
Did Muslim Lobby Force Firing of Popular Radio Host?
We here at the Manor wish you all a good week.
Saturday, March 05, 2011
a Proposal
This writer proposes a more formal and proper version of the Tea Party. This organization would be called the Sons of Liberty.
One of the requirements would be that the members, during public demonstrations, not wear shorts and t-shirts. The members would wear proper clothes reflecting their status as mature and thinking adults.
One of the requirements would be that the members, during public demonstrations, not wear shorts and t-shirts. The members would wear proper clothes reflecting their status as mature and thinking adults.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
On A Lighter Note
Tonight is the celebration of the Academy Awards.
There was a time when the Academy Awards were held in a restaurant and was a small ceremony. Now it's a money making enterprise that gives the entertainment industry the opportunity to give the finger to the movie going public by awarding movies that few people have seen and actors and directors who have been involved with movies that are more arty than the hoi-polloi can understand..
The Academy Awards are a chance for people in the motion picture industry to tell one another how great they are. When was the last time that happened in your trade?
Having said that, this writer is reminded of the days of the great European starlets. And to this day he maintains that no actresses, whether foreign or domestic, have shown themselves to be as iconic as these two women:
YouTube - Claudia Cardinale
YouTube - Claudia Cardinale Tribute
YouTube - BRIGITTE BARDOT
YouTube - brigitte bardot tribute
There was a time when the Academy Awards were held in a restaurant and was a small ceremony. Now it's a money making enterprise that gives the entertainment industry the opportunity to give the finger to the movie going public by awarding movies that few people have seen and actors and directors who have been involved with movies that are more arty than the hoi-polloi can understand..
The Academy Awards are a chance for people in the motion picture industry to tell one another how great they are. When was the last time that happened in your trade?
Having said that, this writer is reminded of the days of the great European starlets. And to this day he maintains that no actresses, whether foreign or domestic, have shown themselves to be as iconic as these two women:
YouTube - Claudia Cardinale
YouTube - Claudia Cardinale Tribute
YouTube - BRIGITTE BARDOT
YouTube - brigitte bardot tribute
From One Thing to Another
Recently, during the revolt in Egypt, CBS reporter Laura Logan was, while reporting on the revolt, basically taken by a group of Egyptian men and "sexually assaulted." As of this time the term "sexually assaulted" has not been defined. Some writers say that she was groped, others say that she was stripped and groped, and still others say that she was gang-raped. She, herself, as of the time of this writing, has not stated what exactly happened to her. She was rescued by soldiers of the Egyptian Army and a group of women.
Women who are familiar (both European correspondents and Egyptian women now living in the West) with life in Egypt have stated that it is not unusual for a woman alone to be sexually assaulted by Egyptian men and that this assault is of a much more violent and serious form the frotage that sometimes takes place on Japanese subways and trains.
While the assault on Ms. Logan is a crime, by Western eyes, what goes on in Egypt in such matters is Egypt's business, and Ms. Logan should have done some research before going to that benighted country before she booked her airline ticket. To think that a press credential will have any brook with Mohammedan savages is not only naive, it's just plain stupid. But, of course stupidity, as will be illustrated later in this post, seems to be the currency of reporters.
We here at the Manor deplore the treatment of women in the Orc nations. But, truth be told, part of the responsibility for their treatment lies with the women themselves. They do not protest. They do not resist. They insist on adhering to a religion that makes them of less value than a donkey. The men get their sexual pleasure from boys and consider women as nothing more than means of replicating themselves.
But if Islamic women want to live that way and not see the freedom and salvation that comes with Christianity, that's on them. Some people insist on being rather stupid and that's their fault. Not ours nor their society's.
On the other hand, when stupidity and idiocy immigrates to one's nation and is allow to persist in the name of being "inclusive" that IS our problem.
Consider Sweden, for example. The city of Malmo has become almost unlivable for native Swedes and Swedish Jews because of the number and influence of Muslim immigrants to that city. The Swedish police do not do their job because they are either afraid of being condemned by the press for being racist, or for fear of suffering violence by the Orcs. The result has been a Little Arabia in Sweden that lives by its own laws.
Since the government of Sweden has not addressed the problem the problem has spread. Now it appears that a Swede is not safe in taking his or her daughter to a public swimming pool in Stockholm:
YouTube - 20 refugees rape an 11-year old girl in a public bath, Stockholm Sweden, Husbybadet.
This writer thinks that it may have been Lenin who coined the term, "useful idiots". The artistic, musical, television and movie industries are, and have been full of useful idiots touting a political and economic philosophy that they do not understand. All too many of the "artistic" crowd have been lured by the promises of socialism and communism while drawing big paychecks and not realizing that it is they who are The Man they object to, and not only the studios or recording industrialists. As you watch the two following linked videos ask yourself how many times you've seen a celebrity wearing a "Che" or "Mao" item while they get paid to attend a party that you couldn't get into because you aren't a hipster.
YouTube - Che artist sprays sanctimony like a skunk
YouTube - Killer Chic: Hollywood's Sick Love Affair with Che Guevara (Chinese translation)
Women who are familiar (both European correspondents and Egyptian women now living in the West) with life in Egypt have stated that it is not unusual for a woman alone to be sexually assaulted by Egyptian men and that this assault is of a much more violent and serious form the frotage that sometimes takes place on Japanese subways and trains.
While the assault on Ms. Logan is a crime, by Western eyes, what goes on in Egypt in such matters is Egypt's business, and Ms. Logan should have done some research before going to that benighted country before she booked her airline ticket. To think that a press credential will have any brook with Mohammedan savages is not only naive, it's just plain stupid. But, of course stupidity, as will be illustrated later in this post, seems to be the currency of reporters.
We here at the Manor deplore the treatment of women in the Orc nations. But, truth be told, part of the responsibility for their treatment lies with the women themselves. They do not protest. They do not resist. They insist on adhering to a religion that makes them of less value than a donkey. The men get their sexual pleasure from boys and consider women as nothing more than means of replicating themselves.
But if Islamic women want to live that way and not see the freedom and salvation that comes with Christianity, that's on them. Some people insist on being rather stupid and that's their fault. Not ours nor their society's.
On the other hand, when stupidity and idiocy immigrates to one's nation and is allow to persist in the name of being "inclusive" that IS our problem.
Consider Sweden, for example. The city of Malmo has become almost unlivable for native Swedes and Swedish Jews because of the number and influence of Muslim immigrants to that city. The Swedish police do not do their job because they are either afraid of being condemned by the press for being racist, or for fear of suffering violence by the Orcs. The result has been a Little Arabia in Sweden that lives by its own laws.
Since the government of Sweden has not addressed the problem the problem has spread. Now it appears that a Swede is not safe in taking his or her daughter to a public swimming pool in Stockholm:
YouTube - 20 refugees rape an 11-year old girl in a public bath, Stockholm Sweden, Husbybadet.
This writer thinks that it may have been Lenin who coined the term, "useful idiots". The artistic, musical, television and movie industries are, and have been full of useful idiots touting a political and economic philosophy that they do not understand. All too many of the "artistic" crowd have been lured by the promises of socialism and communism while drawing big paychecks and not realizing that it is they who are The Man they object to, and not only the studios or recording industrialists. As you watch the two following linked videos ask yourself how many times you've seen a celebrity wearing a "Che" or "Mao" item while they get paid to attend a party that you couldn't get into because you aren't a hipster.
YouTube - Che artist sprays sanctimony like a skunk
YouTube - Killer Chic: Hollywood's Sick Love Affair with Che Guevara (Chinese translation)
Saturday, February 19, 2011
What The Hell?
Back in the 1960s the comedic singer/song writer Tom Lerher wrote a song entitled Oedipus Rex. The punch line of the song was something like, "his sister was his daughter and his son was his brother."
But that was back in the days when incest was considered immoral and illegal, as was homosexuality.
Times have changed and homosexuality is considered, while not normal, an "alternate lifestyle" like being a vegetarian.
This writer predicted years ago that once homosexuality is not considered a aberration, let alone a sin on the level of adultery, that the floodgates of morality will have been breached and it would not be too long before one's loving one's dog in a physical way will not be considered animal abuse but an accepted form of showing affection.
Recently the government of Switzerland has decided to consider the legalization of incest. The Swiss, despite being for the last 350 years good for nothing more than cuckoo clocks and shady banking practices, are, for some reason considered sophisticated. One could say that they are only carrying on the European tradition of royalty where cousins, in order to carry on the royal line with purity, they married their cousins. Meanwhile "hillbillies" were denigrated for supposedly marrying their cousins. As usual, money is able, in popular culture, to cover sins and bad behaviour.
Now we have an instance of an Ivy League professor and liberal writer accused by the state in which he lives of incest with his adult daughter. The liberal press has wasted no time in trying to cut excuses for this freak and, in a sense, equating his taste for his own flesh with the now considered normality of sodomy:
Consensual Adult Incest and the "Ick" Factor - ProfessorBainbridge.com
Incest and the Degradation of Our Vocabulary « Public Discourse
After you read the articles ask yourself this question: If the man thought that his having sex with his daughter was not wrong why did he bother to hide it. To go further, ask yourself why sodomites bother to proclaim that they are "out" if they do not see something not quite right about what they do?
But that was back in the days when incest was considered immoral and illegal, as was homosexuality.
Times have changed and homosexuality is considered, while not normal, an "alternate lifestyle" like being a vegetarian.
This writer predicted years ago that once homosexuality is not considered a aberration, let alone a sin on the level of adultery, that the floodgates of morality will have been breached and it would not be too long before one's loving one's dog in a physical way will not be considered animal abuse but an accepted form of showing affection.
Recently the government of Switzerland has decided to consider the legalization of incest. The Swiss, despite being for the last 350 years good for nothing more than cuckoo clocks and shady banking practices, are, for some reason considered sophisticated. One could say that they are only carrying on the European tradition of royalty where cousins, in order to carry on the royal line with purity, they married their cousins. Meanwhile "hillbillies" were denigrated for supposedly marrying their cousins. As usual, money is able, in popular culture, to cover sins and bad behaviour.
Now we have an instance of an Ivy League professor and liberal writer accused by the state in which he lives of incest with his adult daughter. The liberal press has wasted no time in trying to cut excuses for this freak and, in a sense, equating his taste for his own flesh with the now considered normality of sodomy:
Consensual Adult Incest and the "Ick" Factor - ProfessorBainbridge.com
Incest and the Degradation of Our Vocabulary « Public Discourse
After you read the articles ask yourself this question: If the man thought that his having sex with his daughter was not wrong why did he bother to hide it. To go further, ask yourself why sodomites bother to proclaim that they are "out" if they do not see something not quite right about what they do?
Sunday, February 13, 2011
A Clarification
For those who have read the previous post and who wonder what this writer means by cultures worth preserving, let this writer be clear, and perhaps cruel.
Firstly, Christian cultures are worth preserving. Christianity has given more to the world than any other. Secondly, Jewish culture. The Jews are the Christians' elder brothers. Other religious cultures, while interesting, do not have the ethos that make for cultures that aim upward.
Ethnically, the cultures worth preserving are the Traditional American culture (meaning pre-1960), Western and Middle European culture, and Japanese culture. The rest are pretty much worthless and are based on submission and resentment.
Firstly, Christian cultures are worth preserving. Christianity has given more to the world than any other. Secondly, Jewish culture. The Jews are the Christians' elder brothers. Other religious cultures, while interesting, do not have the ethos that make for cultures that aim upward.
Ethnically, the cultures worth preserving are the Traditional American culture (meaning pre-1960), Western and Middle European culture, and Japanese culture. The rest are pretty much worthless and are based on submission and resentment.
Resist the Great Urge Downward
Some years ago a writer coined the term "The Great Urge Downward." Your faithful correspondent understands this term to mean the natural tendency of civilizations, once they have established themselves. to resort to human nature and decay and not to aspire. To build a civilization takes work. To maintain a civilization takes work. To allow a civilization to decay and fall is the easiest thing in the world. All one has to do is become lazy and do nothing. One doesn't have to actively become decadent. One only has to take the attitude that one's culture is no better than any other.
The American example would be the infusion, in fact, infection, of rap and hip-hop music as an all too common type of music and culture in American life.
This writer, while shopping at the local Wal-Mart, heard, over the store's public music system, a hip-hop song addressing the glories of oral sex. Wal-Mart likes to portray itself as an all-American family friendly establishment, but apparently the company feels that songs about "blow-jobs" are proper listening for children. At one time Wal-Mart would not sell "gangsta rap" because it was too foul. Now they not only sell it but play similar nonsense over their public address system.
Wal-Mart is a microcosm of the nation as a whole. It has gotten lazy in the pursuit of pleasure and money. The "proper" attitude today seems to sell one's birthright for a mass of pottage. It's all about comfort and money and not offending the offensive.
At one time myths were used to reinforce the values of one's culture. One's culture was considered keeping. Cultures aspired upward and sacrificed to maintain an ethos and culture that was considered better than others. Myths and literature were used to drum the idea into the citizen. Myths and literature showed the aspiration toward the better. Now we have literature and music that celebrate the base and the foul.
There was a time when the private detective, even in the early noir novels, saw the P.I,. as a knight errant righting wrongs. Now the P.I. and cop is a corrupt, adulterous, drunken and depressed whiner who, instead of fighting against the destruction of his culture, watches passively the corruption of his world.
Leo Grin addresses this matter in a different, and better written way:
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » The Bankrupt Nihilism of Our Fallen Fantasists
The American example would be the infusion, in fact, infection, of rap and hip-hop music as an all too common type of music and culture in American life.
This writer, while shopping at the local Wal-Mart, heard, over the store's public music system, a hip-hop song addressing the glories of oral sex. Wal-Mart likes to portray itself as an all-American family friendly establishment, but apparently the company feels that songs about "blow-jobs" are proper listening for children. At one time Wal-Mart would not sell "gangsta rap" because it was too foul. Now they not only sell it but play similar nonsense over their public address system.
Wal-Mart is a microcosm of the nation as a whole. It has gotten lazy in the pursuit of pleasure and money. The "proper" attitude today seems to sell one's birthright for a mass of pottage. It's all about comfort and money and not offending the offensive.
At one time myths were used to reinforce the values of one's culture. One's culture was considered keeping. Cultures aspired upward and sacrificed to maintain an ethos and culture that was considered better than others. Myths and literature were used to drum the idea into the citizen. Myths and literature showed the aspiration toward the better. Now we have literature and music that celebrate the base and the foul.
There was a time when the private detective, even in the early noir novels, saw the P.I,. as a knight errant righting wrongs. Now the P.I. and cop is a corrupt, adulterous, drunken and depressed whiner who, instead of fighting against the destruction of his culture, watches passively the corruption of his world.
Leo Grin addresses this matter in a different, and better written way:
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » The Bankrupt Nihilism of Our Fallen Fantasists
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Don't Be Dancing Yet
Your faithful correspondent is of an age where he remembers the Iranian Revolution. During the time more than a few pundits and expatriate Iranians were singing the praises of the Revolution and Khomeini. Not long after the Shah had been exiled it was revealed that the new rulers were not only, in any sense, democratic, but they were Shi'ite fundamentalists of the worst sort. Some thirty years later we find ourselves still dealing with this bunch of jackals and are having a harder and harder time of containing their insanity.
Now we have a revolution of sorts in Egypt. Much of the press is behaving that this revolution will be the dawning of a new day in the land of the Pharaohs. They are correct. But it is not likely that their will be anything close to a Jefferson or Adams in charge in Egypt once the dust settles. More than likely a faction of the Muslim Brotherhood will take power and we'll have another fundamentalist Muslim regime to have to put up with.
Meanwhile, there is this:
French increasingly anxious about Muslims - St. Catharines Standard - Ontario, CA
And this:
New Zeal: Is PCism Worse Than Communism?
Now we have a revolution of sorts in Egypt. Much of the press is behaving that this revolution will be the dawning of a new day in the land of the Pharaohs. They are correct. But it is not likely that their will be anything close to a Jefferson or Adams in charge in Egypt once the dust settles. More than likely a faction of the Muslim Brotherhood will take power and we'll have another fundamentalist Muslim regime to have to put up with.
Meanwhile, there is this:
French increasingly anxious about Muslims - St. Catharines Standard - Ontario, CA
And this:
New Zeal: Is PCism Worse Than Communism?
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Dump the Irony
The Superbowl football game will be played soon, and that means that there will be a lot of speculation about what commercials will be shown, and once shown, there will be a lot of comment regarding the commercials.
If we face fact, probably about a quarter of the viewers of the game via television watch the game to watch the commercials. The game is, in a sense, a premiere of what some people consider the best commercials of the year.
And, if one watches closely, one will probably see that most of the commercials are humorous and that most of the humor is based on irony.
We here at the Manor have had it with intentional irony. Intentional irony is a cheap form of humor and satire. In fact, this writer posits that intentional irony is really irony and is not particularly humorous. Intentional irony is the same oxymoron as is designed accident. One could say that intentional irony is the Jackson Pollack of humor. In other words, it's boring.
The reader may well ask the question, "Lord Nib. What do you mean by intentional irony? How can irony be intentional?" And your faithful correspondent can only reply, "Any Jerry Seinfield joke is intentionally ironic. It is artificial. It is insincere. It is the purview of the hipster."
Real irony comes from real life. A preacher who is well known for raging against adultery and then is later caught en flagrante with a cheap hooker, or even a call girl or a housewife, is an example of irony.
Intentional irony is cheap. It is the form of "humor" used by the person who thinks that he is an insider or wise to the follies of human nature. But this person is neither an insider nor wise. The ironist is a smart-ass always looking out to show his smart ass while calling others asses.
The Internet has made every man a comedian. And that comedy is based on irony.
The result has been a cheapening of sincerity.And the cheapening of sincere humor. Now, when one says something sincerely the listener is often listening to the statement ironically. The result is that one cannot have a decent conversation in which each person really understands the other. There is always that jaded eye between the two.
Let us drop the irony. Let us be sincere. Let us enjoy our simple pleasures without a hipster standing on the sidelines - a man who seems to have no pleasure beyond making fun of others - pouring his scorn upon our pleasures. Let us be honest.
In honor of the upcoming Superbowl, here is the best beer commercial ever made. It was not shown during the Superbowl game. It was buried by irony. And we are all less for it:
YouTube - Miller High Life Girl in the Moon
If we face fact, probably about a quarter of the viewers of the game via television watch the game to watch the commercials. The game is, in a sense, a premiere of what some people consider the best commercials of the year.
And, if one watches closely, one will probably see that most of the commercials are humorous and that most of the humor is based on irony.
We here at the Manor have had it with intentional irony. Intentional irony is a cheap form of humor and satire. In fact, this writer posits that intentional irony is really irony and is not particularly humorous. Intentional irony is the same oxymoron as is designed accident. One could say that intentional irony is the Jackson Pollack of humor. In other words, it's boring.
The reader may well ask the question, "Lord Nib. What do you mean by intentional irony? How can irony be intentional?" And your faithful correspondent can only reply, "Any Jerry Seinfield joke is intentionally ironic. It is artificial. It is insincere. It is the purview of the hipster."
Real irony comes from real life. A preacher who is well known for raging against adultery and then is later caught en flagrante with a cheap hooker, or even a call girl or a housewife, is an example of irony.
Intentional irony is cheap. It is the form of "humor" used by the person who thinks that he is an insider or wise to the follies of human nature. But this person is neither an insider nor wise. The ironist is a smart-ass always looking out to show his smart ass while calling others asses.
The Internet has made every man a comedian. And that comedy is based on irony.
The result has been a cheapening of sincerity.And the cheapening of sincere humor. Now, when one says something sincerely the listener is often listening to the statement ironically. The result is that one cannot have a decent conversation in which each person really understands the other. There is always that jaded eye between the two.
Let us drop the irony. Let us be sincere. Let us enjoy our simple pleasures without a hipster standing on the sidelines - a man who seems to have no pleasure beyond making fun of others - pouring his scorn upon our pleasures. Let us be honest.
In honor of the upcoming Superbowl, here is the best beer commercial ever made. It was not shown during the Superbowl game. It was buried by irony. And we are all less for it:
YouTube - Miller High Life Girl in the Moon
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Hyperbole, Christian Peresecution and the Gheys
Recently there has been a call by our elected masters for they, and us, to tone down the rhetoric and argument while referring to their, and our, political and moral opponents. In other words, if you think that your congressman is a socialist you should not call him a socialist because the word "socialist" is inflammatory. Your political party should not "target" a congressional district for the election of the party's candidate and to oust the incumbent. We should conduct our political and moral arguments in a "nice" way sort of like what they do in Canada. Instead of argument there should be agreement.
That's all nonsense. If the person who holds a political or moral opinion opposed to yours how can you honestly find a compromise? Consider the questions of gun ownership and abortion. If you believe in the Second Amendment as written and intended, how can you compromise with a person who wants to ban gun ownership for the private citizen? If you believe abortion is a crime, how can you compromise with an abortionist?
Your political opponent is your enemy. That person wants to deny you your rights. Why should you co-operate with someone who wants you to live their way instead of your way? To do so would make you a secular dhimmi - subject to the whims and ways of others.
Having written the above, this writer urges the reader to abandon the current use of hyperbole and reckless superlatives. This is not only intended for political or moral speech, but also for everyday speech.
Consider the following conservation overheard by your faithful correspondent between two young women. One lived in San Diego and the other lived in Orange County, California.
Kate: I've applied to attended UC San Diego. (Kate lived in Orange County)
Toni: That would be awesome. (Toni lived is San Diego)
Now, it may be nice, neat-o or fun, for Kate to go to school in San Diego and be near her friend Toni. But is it awesome? Not really. There is nothing in the situation that excites the sense of awe. God is awesome. Victoria Falls is awesome. The launch of a Delta IV rocket is awesome. Living in San Diego is not awesome. It's pleasant.
Or consider the description of Jennifer Aniston or Julia Roberts as beautiful. Let us face it. Neither woman is beautiful. They may be mildly pretty in the high school cheerleader sense, but neither woman will go down in history as a beauty.
Years ago the comedian Victor Borga had a bit in which he described and inflationary language. The bit was based on a mathematical model. Tennis became elevenis, for became five, someone became sometwo, and so one. The act was funny, but ended up being inaccurate. The inflation came with the cheapening of superlatives. Nice became good. Good became great. And the result was that the words mean nothing at all.
It used to be that overstatement was the sign of an uneducated and excitable person. Understatement was the sign of a calm thinker. Who would you rather deal with. The hyperbolic (most politicians) confuse urgent with important. And what has this habit gotten us? Crisis after crisis that, in the end, have shown themselves to be meaningless and not crises.
To move on. This blog and this writer has shown a concern for Christians being persecuted in heathen and atheistic nations. And for those Muslim readers of this blog the word "heathen" is intended to apply to Mohammedanism. And while there have been protests by the Vatican and organizations such as Voice of the Martyrs and International Christian Concern, there has no been, until recently, mass protests supporting Christians against persecution. This protest took place in the Czech Republic. This writer finds it passing strange that such protests have as yet been mounted in the Grand Republic.
Czechs Demonstrate Against the Persecution of Christians
The government of Canada is urging the nation's radio stations not to play the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" because of the use of the word "faggot." And now Great Britain is including teachings regarding Sodomy and the Sodomist lifestyle in every damn subject in schools that can be thought of:
'Gay lessons' in maths, geography and science - Telegraph
That's all nonsense. If the person who holds a political or moral opinion opposed to yours how can you honestly find a compromise? Consider the questions of gun ownership and abortion. If you believe in the Second Amendment as written and intended, how can you compromise with a person who wants to ban gun ownership for the private citizen? If you believe abortion is a crime, how can you compromise with an abortionist?
Your political opponent is your enemy. That person wants to deny you your rights. Why should you co-operate with someone who wants you to live their way instead of your way? To do so would make you a secular dhimmi - subject to the whims and ways of others.
Having written the above, this writer urges the reader to abandon the current use of hyperbole and reckless superlatives. This is not only intended for political or moral speech, but also for everyday speech.
Consider the following conservation overheard by your faithful correspondent between two young women. One lived in San Diego and the other lived in Orange County, California.
Kate: I've applied to attended UC San Diego. (Kate lived in Orange County)
Toni: That would be awesome. (Toni lived is San Diego)
Now, it may be nice, neat-o or fun, for Kate to go to school in San Diego and be near her friend Toni. But is it awesome? Not really. There is nothing in the situation that excites the sense of awe. God is awesome. Victoria Falls is awesome. The launch of a Delta IV rocket is awesome. Living in San Diego is not awesome. It's pleasant.
Or consider the description of Jennifer Aniston or Julia Roberts as beautiful. Let us face it. Neither woman is beautiful. They may be mildly pretty in the high school cheerleader sense, but neither woman will go down in history as a beauty.
Years ago the comedian Victor Borga had a bit in which he described and inflationary language. The bit was based on a mathematical model. Tennis became elevenis, for became five, someone became sometwo, and so one. The act was funny, but ended up being inaccurate. The inflation came with the cheapening of superlatives. Nice became good. Good became great. And the result was that the words mean nothing at all.
It used to be that overstatement was the sign of an uneducated and excitable person. Understatement was the sign of a calm thinker. Who would you rather deal with. The hyperbolic (most politicians) confuse urgent with important. And what has this habit gotten us? Crisis after crisis that, in the end, have shown themselves to be meaningless and not crises.
To move on. This blog and this writer has shown a concern for Christians being persecuted in heathen and atheistic nations. And for those Muslim readers of this blog the word "heathen" is intended to apply to Mohammedanism. And while there have been protests by the Vatican and organizations such as Voice of the Martyrs and International Christian Concern, there has no been, until recently, mass protests supporting Christians against persecution. This protest took place in the Czech Republic. This writer finds it passing strange that such protests have as yet been mounted in the Grand Republic.
Czechs Demonstrate Against the Persecution of Christians
The government of Canada is urging the nation's radio stations not to play the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" because of the use of the word "faggot." And now Great Britain is including teachings regarding Sodomy and the Sodomist lifestyle in every damn subject in schools that can be thought of:
'Gay lessons' in maths, geography and science - Telegraph
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